Variety Acts
Bobby Byrne
The Bobby Byrne show is a unique blend of music that features Broadway show-stoppers, Irish ballads, Italian arias, hilarious novelty numbers, Elvis Presley rockers and old time sing-a-long songs. Bobby will often segue from a foot-stomping medley of Elvis Presley rockers to a classical aria like "Vesti La Giubba" from "Pagliacci". Then, before you can dry the tears after that one, he'll have you laughing at something called "Bridey Murphy and the Kamikaze Pilot". In this age of electronic entertainment, Bobby Byrne is a throwback to another era, a time when performers lived or died on their merits in front of a live audience. Bobby is a favored entertainer of many celebrities, having performed at parties hosted or attended by George Steinbrenner, Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, Mary Higgins Clark and David Dinkins, to name just a few. He has played Carnegie Hall twice, the PNC Arts Center several times, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and on the main altar for the centennial of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He has performed in Atlantic City's casino hotels as well as in the hotels and cabarets of Germany, Cancun, the Bahamas, Hawaii and New York. In Washington, D.C., he has performed many times on Capitol Hill, where House Representatives, Senators and Congressional staffers have become ardent admirers.